The official due date of your proposal papers was yesterday. Each day you are late you lose 10%.
Presentation of your essay topics will begin tomorrow! They are worth 80 points and considered a test grade!
Reminder - there are many required components for Comp II as outlines by WIT. This means that assignments such as notecards, annotated bibliography, etc. are MANDATORY. If you do not complete these assignments you will not be given a passing grade for the semester.
REMEMBER is you do NOT include a citation or paraphrase from the source, the source should NOT be on you Works Cited page!
A printed draft of your essay is required for class on FRIDAY, APRIL 27 for peer editing!
April 20
Use this template to organize your essay! Essay are due in 9 days! Do NOT wait until the last minute! This template will help you a great deal! USE IT!
Review Progress Reports and Annotated Bibliographies
ESSAY DUE IN 19 DAYS!!!
March 30
WORK!!! Only 28 days until your essay is DUE!
March 29
Resources Available - Use ICCOC online library, and school databases (see March 22 for login and password of Iowaaeaonline.com), Google Scholar. If you can, go to the WIT library next week and look for materials there! Take your student ID with you!)
Progress Report - DUE APRIL 10 (Email to your teacher)
Requirements (Working Thesis, Topic, and Progress on your essay - standard format, no more than one page)
Annotated Bibliography - DUE APRIL 16 (Place in the Dropbox)
Requirements You should have at least Fifteen (15-20) separate sources listed in the proper format. Abide by all of the format guidelines. The sources should be varied - not all Internet sources, for example - and be appropriate for a college level research paper. People magazine, Readers Digest, and others of that ilk are not satisfactory. Show me that you know how to find and can analyze data from credible sources (books, scholarly journals, professional sources). Your final reference page in the Research Proposal Paper should have a minimum of 10sources, each of which must be used as a source and cited in your paper. Do not put any sources in your references that you have not used in your paper. It is possible for some of your sources to change as you become more deeply involved in writing your paper. Advise me of changes in references.
Create a concept map for two of the topics you brought to class. Each map must have 4 subtopics and one miniweb is definition and synonyms of your topic. Thirty or more bubbles total.
Chose which topic you are leaning toward after completing your concept maps. Then complete the Topic Analysis Sheet.
March 15 - MLA/APA Worksheet
March 13 - Comma Activity
March 12- No article analysis! Finish up work on your grammar project. Be sure to reread the directions below! Clarification: A group of two needs twenty errors, working solo - find ten errors, groups of three will need thirty errors!
March 5 - CSI: Grammar Project
Using the newspapers, advertisements and magazines brought to class, work with a partner to find grammar errors in publication. Several examples can be found below in the Headlines link and Anguished English book pages.
Work with a partner (at least one of you should have a camera phone to document your finds). Create a slideshow of your discoveries to be presented in class. Include the picture of the grammar violation and the rule it violatesfrom the Grammar Rules PDF. 12 errors = 60%, 14 errors = 70%, 16=80%, 18=90% and 20 errors= 100%. Good Luck and have fun!
Date and Label your entries (1 January 2011: Oprah Launches OWN T.V. Network)
Analyze the article in two or more well organized paragraphs (7-12 sentences each). 200 WORDS TOTAL!!!
DO NOT use personal pronouns in your analysis! Always use an objective voice!
Write or comment about ANY of the following:
Identify and discuss focus as political, social, cultural, or a combination of several of these. Give examples that support your view that the writing falls into this category(ies).
Identify the rhetorical appeals of ethos, pathos, and logos as used in the columns. Which appeal does the columnist tend to use most often? Why? Which issues warrant the use of particular appeals?
Identify effective rhetorical strategies (parallelism, rhetorical question, etc.) used in the column.
Describe the overall tone of the column. Why do you think this columnist uses this tone?
Composition - Daily Class Work and Assignments
Online Writing Lab (MLA and APA format)Essay Checklist
May 1 - Happy May Day!
April 23 - Shakespeare's Birthday!
April 20
April 19 - see the list from Monday
April 18 - see the list from Monday
April 17 - see the list from yesterday
April 16
April 13 - Work on your Annotated Bibliography
April 12 - Grammar Worksheet on Quotation Marks and Italics
April 11 - work on you research and note-taking
April 10
April 9
March 30
March 29
March 28
March 27
March 26
March 22
March 21
March 20
- Create a concept map for two of the topics you brought to class. Each map must have 4 subtopics and one miniweb is definition and synonyms of your topic. Thirty or more bubbles total.
- Chose which topic you are leaning toward after completing your concept maps. Then complete the Topic Analysis Sheet.
- Begin work on your AA, Due Friday night.
- tame version Human Trafficking
- graphic version Modern Slavery
March 19 - Introduction to Proposal EssayMarch 15 - MLA/APA Worksheet
March 13 - Comma Activity
March 12- No article analysis! Finish up work on your grammar project. Be sure to reread the directions below! Clarification: A group of two needs twenty errors, working solo - find ten errors, groups of three will need thirty errors!
March 5 - CSI: Grammar Project
Article Analysis